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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OBBELL ASHTON, OF SWAMPSCOTT, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOB T0 UNITED SHOE MACHINERY COMPANY, OF PAI'ERSON, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

MACHINE FOB.- USE IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BOOTS AND SHOES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 27, 1915.

Application filed Hovember 10, 1909. Serial N0. 527,210.

To all u'lz om it may concern:

Be it known that I, OnRsLL Asn'mx, a citizen of the United States. residing at Swampscctt. in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts. have invented certain Improvements in Machines for Use in the Manufacture of Boots and Shoes, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like reference characters on the drawings indicating like parts in the several figures.

This inrention relates to machines for use in working an upper over a last and is illustrated and will be explained as incorporated in a pulling-over and lasting machine having the general organization set forth in prior application for Letters Patent of the United States, Ser. No. 375,669, filed May 25. 1907 by R. F. McFeely. That machine comprises means for pulling-over an upper and means for automatically lasting the toe portion of the upper.

One important feature of this invention consists in provisions for adjustment of the toe lasting means to the shoe after the upper pulling operation and prior to the automatic operation of the lasting means. It has been found in practice that there is suflicient variation in the conditions presented by different shoes, as for instance in the plane of the shoe bottom. to make possible improved results if the toe lasting means can be manually positioned around the toe at the correct elevation prior to their power driven lasting movement. This is perhaps of special importance in turn shoe work, upon which this machine is at present chiefly used, because a turn shoe sole is soft and in temper when the shoe is lasted and its edge projects outwardly beyond the edge of the last bottom. For obtaining the improved results referred to I have mounted the toe lasting means for movement on its carrier toward and from the shoe, and also preferably vertically to a limited extent. The lastingmeans is normally latched to its carrier so that it is retracted tin-web} from the shoe at the end of the pullingoverandlasting operations and held out of the way during the nest pullingorer operation. When the shoe has been made ready for the toe lasting the latch is releaxd and a spring forces the lasting means into toe embracing relation to the shoe. The operator then can adjust the lasting devices into desired relation to the plane of the bottom of the shoe that is in the machine andcan make any other adaptation needed for the particular conditions presented so that when the ower mechanism is started the upper w' l be properly gathered and over-wiped into lasted positron and, as herein shown, will be fastened by lasting tacks. The latch is caused to reengage the lasting means during the power operation and cause said means to be automatically retracted to its initial position after the fastenings have been inmrted. For the convenience of the operator this position is sufficiently remote from the shoe to allow unobstructed inspection of and access to the shoe during its preparation for lasting and this remoteness of initial position is a factor in the importance of this feature of the inrention by which accurate relation of the lasting means to the shoe can be assured before the power is applied to said means.

Another feature of this invention consists m the provision of upper clamping means to assist in holding the upper for the action of the lasting means. It is found that under some conditions improved results are obtained from the lasting means if the upper can be held to the side face of the shoe below the wipers durin the operation of said wipers. Preferab y the clamping means, herein shown as thin plates or jaws, will be mounted to engage the upper while it is held stretched by the pulling-over means and to clamp the upper against the edge of the shoe sole. When so arranged the c amping jaws constitute guides over which the lasting means slide to gather the upper and lay it into lasted position upon the shoe bottom. As I are advised it is new by this invention to provide a machine having power operated'lasting means with upper holding or clamping jaws which can be manually positioned before the automatic actuation of the lasting means. These jaws can be held pressed against the shoe, as by the hand of the operator while the toe grippers are disengaged from the upper and retired from the path of the lasting means prior to the power actuation of the lasting means. The clamping jaws are not necessary under all conditions and I have obtained good results by the useof the lasting means to embrace the upper at the upper edge of the sole and clamp it against the sole margin while rcleasin the toe grippers as just described. It may be well here to explain that in the lasting of turn shoes I do not desire to obtain that conformation of the margin of the upper to the contour of the underlying face of the feather and shoulder of the sole which is sought and obtained in welt shoe lasting by wiping hard over the feather and firmly against the shoulder and is then usually perfected by compression. I find that in turn shoe work, in which the upper is sewed to the sole with lining side out and is thereafter turned to present the finished side of the leather out, the best appearing shoe after it is turned is produced if the u per is gathcred over the toe of the sole an fastened at a few points, without pressure or definite creasing. The fullness around the toe is most evenly and smoothly distributed by the sewing operation without producing wrinkles in the turned shoe if the shoe is thus prepared for the sewing machine, rather than being prepared as is a welt shoe which is to be sewed right side out.

I have discovered that im roved lasting of the toe of the shoe can be 0 tained by the use of pullingover grippers which are formed in sections and arranged to age a continuous section of upper cxten g from one side of the shoe around the toe to the other side. The action of such grippers in preparing and, it may be holding, the upper for the operation of the means produces a smoother and more ev y lasted toe than can be otherwise obtained so far as I am advised. advantageously the toe grippers may be mounted to '1:- movement in the direction of the edge of the last, as for example rotafivemovement, to adjust the ripple: ed gewise around the toe of. the last. e portion of the invention which relates strictly to the grippers is made the subject-matter of application Ser. No. 568,918 filed June 25, 1910, which is a continuation of this application as to subject matter which is common to both cases.

Another feature of the invention which is of particular importance in turn shoe work consists in gripper positioning and actuating mechanism arranged to cause the grippers to stretch the upper. about the last out. of contact with the side faces of the last, and therefore out of contact with the overhanging edge of the forward portion of the sole, and then to wrap the upper inwardly over the edge of the sole. This inward wrapping is or may be made to take place during the latter part of the stretching movement and before the lasting A further feature of this invention is found in an organization of an upper pulling andfastening machine by which the upper fastening mechanism is caused, during the insertion of the tacks, to aid in f ing the upper in the direction of the Overdrawing movement. This result is obtained by providing a tack holder which is mounted to be moved forwardly by the tack drivers and has a. driver passage with which the driver forms an angle such that the holder is moved in the direction of the overdrawing movement upon the upper during the descent of the driver to insert a fastening tack. This is of particular advantage where, as in turn shoe work, the upper is not molded hard down upon the surface of the sole before being fastened and can therefore be drawn farther over the sole by such action of the tacking mechanism. The portion of this invention which relates strictly to the tacking mechanism is not herein claimed but is made the subject-matter of application Ser. No. 591,622, filed Nov. 10, 1910, as a continuation of this application in so far as the two applications disclose the same su ject-matter.

A further feature is found in the pro vision for independent adjustment of the side grippers, located at opposite sides of the shoe, inwardly and outwardly. This is embodied in a device for separately shifting the side gripper spreading levers by which the side grippers are moved outwardly by power against the resistance of overdraw Another feature of this invention is found in means for depressing the last manually into the pulled upper. This is shown as embodied in means arranged for manual operation while the upper is under strain. As herein shown the heel end of the last is rocked downwardly relatively to the forward ortion which may pivot on the toe end 0 the sole rest. This rocking movement has the effect of producing a differential strain on the upper held by difi'erent portions of the gripping means and it may be used to advantage to draw the upper down into the hollow over the thin ball that is found in some lasts, particularly those .which have high toes.

I The foregoing and other features of this invention, including certain important details of construction and combinations of parts, will be more fullv explained in the .upper pulling and the last resting and depressing means; Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the toe grippers; Fig. 5 shows one pair of the sectional jaws; Fig. 6 is a bottom view of the toe grippers; Fig. 7 is a perspective" ie of the side grippers showing the gripp positioning mechanism also; Fig. 8 is a plan of the positioning mechanism; Fig. 9 is a detail thereof; Fig. 10 is a side elevation showing in full an dotted lines inop erative and initial operative positions of the toe lasting mechanism. together with the grippers which are holding the upper in pulled over position for the lasting to be commenced. Fig. 11 is a plan with the last ing devices in the dotted line relation of Fig. 10; Fig. 12 shows the upper overworked to lasted position and one tacker in operative position; Fig. 13 is a detail of the lasting devices.

The machine in its general organization resembles that shown in United States Letters Patent No. 663.777. granted December 11, 1900, on application of Ronald F. Mc- Feely and in the development of that ma- ;chine which is fully illustrated and described in McFeelys pending application Serial No. 375,669. A detailed description of the well known portions of this machine is not required herein but an understanding thereof may be had from said prior specifications.

The head of the machine is carried on a pedestal at such a height that the operator may look obliquely upwardly at the shoe being operated upon and that he may have the several levers and other manually operated devices within convenient reach. The head supports a shoe bottom rest 4, against which the shoe is positioned with its bottom and the edges of the upper faced obliquely upwardly and the head contains a cam shaft from which are driven cams that operate the several power operated mechanisms of the machine. The cams 6 and 7 at the rear of the shaft operate respectively the two side grippers S. 9 and the toe grippers through yielding connections 11. 12 with the updraw levers 14, 15 from near the front ends of which the grippers are suspended by joints permitting freedom of movement to the grippers. The levers are extended forwardly to provide handles by which the operator can manipulate the grippers to in crease or diminish the stretching of the upper or to shift the upper. Relative vertical movement of the side grippers pulls the upper transversely of'the last one way or (and) the other. thus tending to main the upper farther. and such movement may be made to position the upper transversely of the last. to work it down into the hollow over the ball of the last. and to stretch or draw the upper into conformity to the contour of the particular last that is in the machine. This drafting of the upper which is effected by the power and manual movements of the side grippers. and the movements of the toe grippers. which will be described, is a very important characteristic of ofthetoe pearance to the shoe, and the further object of distributing the upper stock according to the formantion of the particular last and of establishing the initial lines of strain which will assist in causing the upper to maintain the form of the last after the last has been withdrawn. This pulling over operation in which the upper, in addition to being correctly positioned on the last, is pulled at a few selected points and drafted to the last, makes the shoe ready for the detail lasting to be described in which continuous sections of the prepared upper are worked into final position to be fastened and it gives to the finished shoe that permanent shape and well built appearance which characterizes high grade shoes of the present time.

The toe gripper lever 15 has, in addition to its handle, a lever 16 connected by a slide 17 with the jaw closing mechanism to enable the operator conveniently to open the jaws gripper independently of the regular operation of the machine. The toe gripper bar 10 is made cylindrical at its lower end and on it is rotatably mounted a block :22 havin a chamber for a spring 24 and recesses or two rotatable stems 25 on each of which is formed a fixed gripper jaw 26. The movable gripper jaw 28 is pivoted to the outer side of the fixed jaw at 29 and has an eye to embrace the stem 25. The inner side of the eye interlocks with a notched depending extension of a sleeve 30. The sleeves 30 have notches in their adjacent sides into which fits a disk or plate 32 having a central oblong slot to receive the T-head 33 of the bar 10 and safely interlock therewith when the bar and block 22 are relatively rotated to their normal position. Pins 21 carried on a spring plate 23 extend through the walls of the block 22 into an nular grooves in the heads of the stems 25. This connection of the stems with the block 22 and the connection of the sleeves 30 with in the head so that they are each gripper section can be displaced, within limits, both longitudinally and transversely of the shoe for adaptation to the shape and position of the last and also for efiecting adjustment of the upper upon the last This latter use is provided for by ap plying a hand bar to the block The side grippers '8 and 9, which may be of known construction, are suspended by ball joints from their levers 14 and are guided with the narrow body portion of their blocks within relatively wide ways to move with the upper when the upper is adjusted around the toe by the rotation of the toe gripper block 22. This adjustment of the upper by means of the toe gripper, with the side grippers free to move with the upper is found very satisfactory for tip line positioning. Tip line positioning may involve adjustment of the tip line or seam angularly with relation to the median line of the last and this is efiected by the angular movement of ,the'toe gripper by the hand bar 35 as described Tip positioning also involves adjustmentlongitudinally of the shoe for obtaining correct and uniform length of tips. This is obtained in the present machine by manually increasing or diminishing the pull of the toe gri r by the use of the handle on lever 15. y reason of the fact that the. illustrated curved toe grippers engage the upper at the sides, as well as at the end of the too, they do not tend to how the tip seam and as the side grippers move freely lengthwise of the last they offer no retardation tending to cause the tip seam to be bowed when the upper is pulled upon by the toe gripper. 'ery effective stretching of the upper lengthwise of the last. and'oonformation of the upper to the contour of the heel portion and side faces of the obtained in this machine by the use of the wide curved grippers having engagementwith theentire toe portion of the upper at the sides and end s that a lengthwise pulling is efiected throughout the breadth of the upper. This thmoughly tensions the vamp and quarter seam along the sides of the last, as well as the side margins of the vamp, without excessively straining the vamp along its median line and at the throat. This result is appreciated in making low cut shoes, the zipper edges of which should snugly hug the last and the wearers foot in order to retain their shape and be comfortable. The freedom of movement of the side grippers of course contributes to this successful use of the toe gripper. The side grippers have their and rear faces of their blocks 40 opposed inclines l2 which seat in corresponding inclines in the head when the grip pers are restored to shoe receiving position.

These inclines reguide the side grippers.

The bar 35, together with the plate :23, is

fastened by a single screw 36. Either with or without loosening the screw, the plate and the hand bar may be turned to uncover the pins 21 and permit them to be taken out of the stems 25 and, when the block 22 is turned 90 on the bar 10, the two stems and the gripper jaws can be removed. This provision for readily removing one set of jaws and substituting another enables the machine to be easily provided at ail times with grippers having jaws suitable for the work that is in hand, even though the sizes may vary from childrens to womens, for example. The plate :23 applies sufficient friction though the pins to the stems 25 to pre: rent them from undesirable 100$ movement. It will be noted that the jaws 26 and 28 are so formed and arranged that their grip ing faces are at a small angle to the plane o the last bottom by reason of which they are adapted to receive the upper of the forward portion of the shoe in its normal, outwardly flared position. This enables initial folds or packers in the upper to be avoided and permits the upper to be stretched smoothly over the enti e end portion of the last and produce a smooth edged toe. as shown in Fig. Thetoe and side grippers may, if desired, be connected as shown in Fig. 3, by cylindrical pins 4-3, 44 arranged to move endwise and turn freely in guideways on the side and front incers, respectively, and connected together by transverse pins, as shown in dotted lines, to permit relative angular movement of the toe and side grippers The lateral position or spread of the grippets for seizing the upper is determined and elfected after each operation by the spreading'mwhanism, shown in Figs. 7 and 8, which is in general the same as that described in'the hicFeely specifications. with the addition of means for independently adjusting each of the side grippers The grippers are pressed inwardly by springs 45 and the side grippers are reversely moved by levers l6 havin contact blocks engaging the inner sides of the gripper bars 8 and 9 and have rolls 4? to engage endwise movable wedges 48. as shown in said prior machines. T he fulcrums or stationary supports for the levers are formed bf: eccentric portions of pins 52 which are rotatable in their supports. as by the use or a pin 53. and are locked by a set screw 54. By ad justment of the eccentrics 50, the lerers i6 1 r may be moved angularly about the axes of rolls -lT to throw thenforward ends and the gripper has 8 and 9 outwardly or inwardly.

This adjustment also shifts the gripper bars .by the fact that it moves the levers longitudinally of the wedges 48.

The bottom rest 4 forms an abutment for the last to hold it against the pull of the grippers and the rest has numerous automatically eflected movements, some of which can be supplemented by hand power, as is well understoodby those famihar with the machine, but which are not necesary to detail in connection with this invention. In addition to the bottom rest, the machine is herein provided, see Fig. 3, with a last deresor 41 arranged to engage the sole of the last over the instep and fulcrumed in the rest carrier and having a toothed engagement with a pinion 431. This pinion has detachable engagement with the automatically driven lever 152 of the sole rest operating mechanism of the known machine and the pinion is connected by its shaft with the hand lever 160 at the side of the machine,

see Fig. 1, which has the disconnector 166 for disengaging the pawl er swinging arm 156 of lever 152 as is well understood when itis desired to actuate the depressor by band [ever 160. This deprexor can serve to move the rear part of the last downwardly with relation to the toe end and, by this move ment relatively to the grippers, to efiect a differential stretching of the upper for drawing the upper into the hollow portion of the last over the ball. The last is lightly rested at the heel to resist rearward displacement in the heel rest 2 which permits the heel end of the last to move up and down relatively to the toe end with small resistanoe when the depressor is operated. The depressor can be operated manually instead of the side grippers to draw the upper more tightly and ofiers the advantage that it can be moved with one hand while the two side grippers require both hands.

The means which coiiperate with the pulling-over grippers to work the upper over the last bottom into lasted position about the forward portion of the shoe and to secure it in overworked condition is carried by an arm 60 which is suspended from the upper portion of the head and swings inwardly from the position shown in Fig. 1. This lasting mechanism comprises two sets of devices.- The first set in ludes those devices 70 which are shown in holding engagement with the upper in Fig. 11 and which will be called clamps for the purpose of designation.

The clamps are carried by a plate 62 which also carries the lasting plates 80 which constitute the other set of devices and are located immediately above the clamps 70, Fig. 10. to be guided, as to the plane of their operative movement, in sliding contact therewith. The plate 62 is yi ingly upheld by a spring 65 encircling a belt which depends from the toe tack block 92, carried on the lower end of the arm 60, the spring being confined under adjustable tension by a nut and permitting limiting tilting movement of the plate 62 whereby the lasting devices may be adjusted vertically relatively to the plane of the shoe bottom. In practice the operator tilts the plate up angularly so as to bring the jaws where they will embrace the shoe around the edge of the sole and then the wipers guided thereover will close with a rubbing action over the margin of the shoe bottom to lay the upper over the feather of a turn shoe sole and ainst the shoulder thereof. The plate 62 is slotted lengthwise as best shown in Fig. 12 so that it can slide lengthwise of the shoe relative to the tack block 92 from the position Fig. 10 to that Fig. 11. This movement of the lasting devices relatively to the shoe angularly and lengthwise from a position remote from the shoe where the shoe is freely observable to the workman to a position in proper relation to the shoe for the power operated movements to be imparted to it for properly lasting the shoe toe has proven to be of great practical importance in the reorganization and development, respectively, of the machines described in the McFeely patent and application above mentioned to produce the machine of the present inventihn. The plate 62 and the lasting devices are retained normally in retracted position away from the shoe by a latch 67 fixed on the tack block and engaging in the outer end of the slot in plate 62'as in Fig. 10. This can be readily released by theloperator when he is ready to position the lasting devices, whereupon a spring 66 encircling a guide rod 64 and acting against a forked lug 63 on plate 62 moves the plate and the lasting devices forwardly to or toward the position of the latter shown by dotted lines in Fig. 10 and shown by full lines in Fig. 11.

The clamping jaws 70 are shaped to embrace the toe and grip the upper against the edge of the sole. Their adjacent ends are pivoted together and each jaw has a. pin and slot connection, Fig. 11, at the outer side of the pivot to the head of a sliding stem 78 which is movable outwardly and away from the center plane of the machine in an oblique guidewav formed for it in the enlarged head of plate 62. This head has also a sleeve 74 guided in a parallel way in the plate, and a spring 75 permits the jaw holder to yield away from the shoe. Each of the sleeves 74 contains a spring-pressed plunger 76 and these mountings normally hold the jaws '70 in the relative positions shown in Fig. 13. The plate 62 carries a block the depending portiom 82 of which constitutes means through which the operator can press the jaws 70 against the pulled upper and cause them to plates are caused to act upon the shoe.

move relatively from the positions shown in Fig. 13 to the stock clamping positions conformable to the contour of the toe shown in Fig. 11. The pin and slot connections at 72, 72, as well as the other described jointing and supporting connections contribute to the capacity of the jaws to adapt. themselves to different narrow and wide and right and left shapes of toes and to clamp the upper smoothly and so securely that the toe grippers can be released. Before the toe grippers are released the jaws may be used, ifdesired, to wipe the upper smoothly up the side faces of the toe so as to present it in desired condition for lasting over the shoe bottom. The loose connection permitting horizontal endwise and limited vertical tipping movement of the plate 62 relatively to the tack block 92 allows the operator to efiect these movements of the jaws by force transmitted through the finger piece 82. Operators usually maintain pressure of the jaws until the wipers are operated by keeping a finger upon the abutment 82. In practice I have found it to be satisfactory to open the toe'gn'ppers manually by lifting the hand latch 16 which, through the connection 17, lifts the block 22 and jaw stems 25 to release the upper. It shoullgnlgd menfliolizledh that the toe i rsarear to o eup a lile a fay from the side faces of the E; at the beginning of the updraw so as not to lift the edge of the innersole, or the sole which in turn shoes projects beyond the side of the last. This is efiected by the ham or incline 55 which is formed on them! Side of bar 10 and is bythe end-of the spreading bar- 51 to control and the outward position of the toe grippersdur; ing the updraw. This illustrated arrange ment provids for moving the toe. grippers inwardly to wrap about the last the upper which has been initially pulled while it was out of touch with the edge of the sole. The jaw sections may turn to conform to the smaller curve as the grippers move inwardly and the grippers preferably come to rest in about that relation to the edge of the shoe which appears in Fig. 11, that is, with the upper slightly overdrawn and hugging the edge of the last or sole so that the clamping devices 70 can clamp the up securely.

The lasting plates 80, 80 e in a plane immediately over the jaws 70 and are separatelypivoted to the plate 62 at86, 86 and when the plate 62 is advanced from Fig. 10 to Fig. 11 position the ends of the plates 80 so connected are advanced. The outer ends of the plata 80 are, however, connected by rolls 9O standing in cam slots88, Figs. 10 and 11, with the tack block 92. It is therefore only when the tack block is advanced by the power mechanism after the next treadling of the machine that the lastilfg this advance, which will be understood by comparing Fig. 11 with Fig. 12, the plates 80 are turned about their pivots 86 to sweep the upper over the corners of the toe from opposite sides simultaneously and in directions substantially perpendicular to the adjacent portions of the shoe edge. The pivots 86 tend to remain stationary during this swinging movement because of the engagementof jaws 70 with the shoe but as the tack block 92 advances along the longitudinal slot in plate 62 it ultimately comes to and strikes the end wall of the slot and thrusts the late 62 ahead until abutment 82 engages har enough against the end of the shoe. This engagement is a very substantial one. being the same that is relied upon to cause the tripping ofi of the toe tack drivers as fully explained in said prior Patent No. 663,177. During this movement of the tack block before the tack drivers descend the jaws 70 are forced by the power mechanism hard against the shoe, the springs yielding to allow the plate 62 to advance; the corner wiper plates are given a straight forward final movement; and the tack block 92 is advanced and acts as a middle or toe end wiper to lay the upper at the middle of the toe straight backwardly. The whole effect is to er the stock into about the condition own in Fig. 2 with a fold or plait at each side of the center of the toe tack t and a fold or plait, which is not of objectionable size, at the ends of the corner wipers just beyondthe corner tacks t. The three tacks t t t are inserted from the tack block 92 while the two side tacks at each side of the shoe are driven from the side tackers into stock is pulled and then overwiped by the side grippers and the side wipers which latter ma be like those described in said prior spec cations As the tack block advances relatively to the plate 62 and its red 64 the spring 66 is compressed as in Fig. 12 until the latch 67 catches into the slot in the plate and locks the plate and its attached jaws and wipers to the tack block so that said parts are 'carried back with the tack block as shown in Fig. 10 where they will be out of the operators way as he oi serves the pulling and efl ects adj ustments of the next shoe.

The toe tack holder 97 or member containing the tack pockets is pivoted in the tack block 92 on a. horizontal axis running transversely of the machine and so located that the tack holder hangs backwardly as in Fig. l but can be swung forwardly by the drivers as'they descend into and through the pockets. For this purpose the tack pockets and driver. passages are inclined and the driver block is pivoted to the driver bar at 98, as shown in Fig. 1, and held in normal position by a spring 99. As the drivers descend their ends enter the driver passages or tack pockets in the block, the inclined walls of which cause the block and the drivers to be tilted forwardly and the tacks driven on a slant or inclination inwardly. The effect is like that which would be obtained by mounting the driver bar to move in a path inclined down wardly and inwardly at an acute angle to the plane of the shoe bottom and the advantage of the illustrated arrangement is that the necessity is avoided of building this machine to project far enough forwardly to allow the driver bar to be reciprocated at the described acute angle to the shoe bottom. There is also an advantage in that the tack holder has given to it a forward, swinging movement by the drivers which causes It to force the stock inwardly from the edge of the last and, in making shoes over a channeled 'or shouldered innersole or sole, to jam an the upper materials up against the shoulder or channel lip at the moment of tacking.

' 1n the use of the machine, an assembled shoe, comprising the last, innersole and up per materials, is presented to the machine 1n the relation shown in Figs. 1 and 3. The marginal portion of the upper 1n its normal outwardly flared position a.t the toe end of the shoe is readily inserted mto the jaws of the toe grippers which are formed, as shown in Figs 4 and 5, to receive the upper without necessarily bending or deflecting it from its normal position. The upper at the, sides of the shoe normally stands in a substantially upri ht position and readily finds its position tween the jaws on the side grippers The bottom rest determines the vertical position of the shoe in the machine and the toe grippers may form the means for positioning the shoe lengthwise and the toe laterally. For this purpose the shoe may be presented with its toe end against and laterally centered in the curred toe grippers This step of positioning the shoe with relation to the toe grippers has the added advantage that the swinging sections of the grippers are automatically t-ioned relatively by engagement of ta shoe therewith in accordance with the contour of the particular shoe which is to be operated upon. The formation of the inner sides of the gripper sections to facilitate this relative positioning of shoe and toe grippers is well illustrated in Figs 5 and 6. With the work thus presented, the machine is started and caused to close and uplift the grippers for putting the upper under tension and then come to rest. The shoe now stands before the operator in a position inclined forwardly and upwardly so that he can examine the upper and determine what, if any, re-adjustments, additional pulling, and drafting may be required for fitting the shoe properly to the contour of the particular last over which it is being made. If the tip line does not bear the desired angular relation to the length of the last. it is corrected or straightened by turning the grippers by means of the hand bar on the toe grippers. The side grippers, by reason of the fact that they are free to move forwardly and backwardly, ofl'er substantially no resistance to this tip straightening movement by the toe grippers for they can follow the adjacent ed e of the upper in its forward and backwar movement. If the toe and side grippers are connected, as shown in Fig. 3, this following of the toe grippers by the side grippers is mechanically insured, and the tip straightening is accomplished by stretchi the upper on one side of the shoe between t e rear end of. the side gripper and the heel and relaxing it on the other side of the shoe. This has the advantage that the up r is not stretched lengthwise or distort in any way between the toe grippers and the side grippers in the tip straightening operation. Instead thereof, the entire forward portion of the upper from the rear end of one side gripper to the rear end of the other is adjusted edgewise around the last. This is the first time that this has been provided for in a p -over machine and m claims thereto are to be construed broa y. If the tip line is not in the right longitudinal position, or, as it is expressed, if the tip is not of the right Is h, the upper may be pulled farther forwar by uplifting the toe gripper by means of the handle on its lever 15. While the side grippers are free to swing forwardly during this forward straining of the upper by the toe gripper, the side grippers may advantageously be depressed to relax the tension on the upper during this forward straining. This can easily be done by the operator grasping the two side levers with his two hands and pulling them downwardly while pressing upwardly with one or both thumbs upon the handle of the toe gripper lever. For this purpose the three gripper levers 14, 15, 14 are arranged close enough together to enable them to be readily engaged as described. If it is desired to adjust the upper transversely of the ball of the last, this is done by uplifting one side gripper and lowering the other, and both side grippers may be uplifted for additionally stretching the upper transversely of the last.

Some modern lasts are formed with a high or thick toe and a relatively low or thin ball portion into which it is difficult to draw the upper in the pullingover operation. particularly if the vamp of the upper has not been previously crimped. If this difliculty is met in any shoe. the last depressor 41 may be emplayed for tipping the last downwardlv about the forward extremity of the toe rest as a fulcrum thus putting additional tension on the upper over said low portion of the last. This tensioning of the upper by thelast depressor has the advantage, over additionally tensioning by uplifting the side grippers, that the movement is an angular one causing gradually increasing tension from the high partof. the toe backwardly to the low part of the ball and giymg most eifective distribution of the tension. The last depressor may beoperated automatically'es described and also additional movement thereto manually by the hand lever 160. If during the inspection and manipulation of the shoe it is discovered that' the upper has been pulled too far forwardl'yythe toe grip can be caused to releaseor slacken their hold upon the upper enough to let it slip backwardly' and react under itstensionj." This is done by uplifting the little lever 16 and drawing upwardly upon the block 2:2 and the gripper steros 25.- This has the efi'ect of raising the gripper stems and the gripper jaws-26 w1th relation to the other jaws-and sleeves 30 which are held downby theconnection of the sleevewithtlie bar -10. -The incline on the heck of the toe gripper bar 10 holds the grippers normally for-ward at the 'time of gripping and dui-iiigtheinitial p so that the stretching upper is onto the edge of the? innr'sole to avoid" lifting 1t.

1 As the npdrawproeeedsfithe incline: to moveinwardly for wrapping the upper over theedge-of the shoe so that position substantially-idle that shoim'm Fig.1!) when the machine "The side grippers h vep for the same P11113081; inclines'armnged sumlar to that onthe'toe bar; 1 When the-:upperhas'b'een properly ad usted bind the shoe ready for lasting, the operator depresses the "latch 67 which allows the'spring 661:0 force forwardly 1nto contact with the shoe the upper clamping plates or jawsj'O; plates, by reason of their mountings, adjust themselves readily to-the contour and the lateral position of the toe end of the last. The operator positions them werfically relation to the plane of the bottom ofthe last so that said jaws clamp the upper against the edge of the inner-sole; This adjustment of the clamping jaws also efi'eets vertical adjustment of the lam'ng plawi which, like the jaws, are carried on the plate 62. insures'that the lasting plates. whenthey are automatically operating, will come over the last bottom in the correct plane for wiping the upper firmly into lasted position. When the clamping jaws have been caused to hold the upper, the toe grippeis may be released and the machine is then re-started. During this automatic movement the lasting plates 80 are swung about their pivots 86 by the advance of the tack arm carrying the rolls 90, and are caused to wipe or fold the upper forwardly from the corners of the last covered by them, see Fig. 12, in advance of the forward wiping or folding of the: upper at the toe end by the tack block 92 which, being mounted in a. higher plane than the plates 80, tends to lay the upper from the toe end over that wiped in from the corners.

The wipers hold the upper while the toe tacks t, t, t, are inserted from the tool; block 92. The other tacks are inserted at the same time from the two side tackers. As the driversof the toe tacker enter the driver passages in the tack block they swing the tack block forwardly thus', giving it a. downward movement in the direction to force the upper against the shoulder of the inner-sole and the tacks are preferably driven into the angle between the shoulder ahdfeather of the innersole to obtain. the best efl'ect in holding-the upper in for sewing of the shoulder. Y 3;

It will of course be unde the usiiallgidlf cslhamps or'rthtils1 macgine serveto. up 0 t e oedurgf etac driw'ng o I oration. Whentheitaeks-have been the parts of the machine resume their nor mal positions, the latch- 67 having automatically rengaged the plate 62 when the tack arm is in its advinced osition,, a.nd the shoe is released in substantially the con dition shown in Figef This figure representsa small turn shoe which is in readinessto be presented next to the usual welt and turn sewing machine'for the permanent attechment of therupper to the sole The inclined shoulders42 reguide the side grippers edgewise to normal position and also thetoe grippers, if the connection between said gripp sshown in Fig. employed The rear portion of the plate 62 may beinclined with relation to the front portion as shown in 'Fig. 1, so that when the plateand the lasting devices are advanced to the shoe as shown in dotted lines, Fig. 10, theywill be lifted slightly. They will then he'll ther raised as the arm 60 advances to actuate the lasting plates. This will cause the plates to act more effectively in overwiping the upper because of their being raised automatically as they are advanced. It should also be understood that the last depressi- 41 may advantageously stand normally at a height which will allow a shoe to be presented with its heelend high up in the machine to facilitate seizing of short uppers by the side grippers, or by the rear pair of a plurality of pairs of side grippers if they are used. In the operation of the machine the depressor will automatically rock the heel end of the last downwardly to its normal relation to the other instrumeutalities of the machine.

The preierred use of the machine has been set forth but it should be lllldBlStOOd that thereby no limitations are intended. For example it is within this invention to operate the toe lasting mechanism entirely by the power mechanism, allowing the latch 67 to retain the parts in the relation shown in Fig. until the toe tacker mechanism advances and the abutment S2 strikes the shoe and the clamping jaws 70 takeup their positions about the toe automatically. whereupon the continued advance of the tack block will swing lasting plates 80 and lay the upper into position to be tacked. It found in practice. however, that more reliable and otherwise far more satisfactory preparation of the shoes for the sewing operation can be done when that feature of this invention is made use of which provides for the described manual positioning of the jaws 70 and of the lasting plams S8 in accordance with the needs .of the individual shoe and the judgment and skill of the workman.

Having explainedthe nature of this inrention and described a preferred construction embodying the same, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States 1. In a pulling-over machine, means to engage and pull the upper at the end and opposite sides of the forward portion of the shoe, and means for moving the heel portion of the last downwardly relatively to the toe portion. .v

,2. In a pulling-over machine, means to engage the upper at the endjand opposite sides of the forward porlgionof the means to actuate g' pping the upper. and means. capable of. operation to depres the rear part of the relatively to the toe end whereby to increase the tension on the upper held by t e side gripping means.

3. In a ailing-over means to engage an pull the upper at the end and opposite sides of the forward portion of the shoe, :1 last bottom restart-singed to engage the forward portion of the lastto. resist the pull of the gripping means, and independently movable means-todepressthe rear portionofthelast. W I i 4. In a pulling-over machine, means to engage and pull the up r at the end and opposite sides of the orward portion of the shoe,..and shoe bottom engaging means including a member which is movable to rock the last about an located approximatel-y at the toe 5. In a pulling-over machine, means to engage and pull the upper at the end and opposite sides of the forward portion of the shoe, and shoebottom engaging means including members which are movable relatively to one another to move the last angularlj through a greater distance at the heel than at the toe end.

6. In a ullingsover machine, means to engage an pull the upper at the end and opposite sides of the forward portion of the shoe, a shoe bottom rest, and means additional tosaid rest by which to impart a differential movement to portions of the last adjacent to different portions of the gripping means.

7. In a pulling-over machine, a toe gripper, side grippers, means to actuate the grippers to pull an upper, a last bottom rest, and means under control of the operator to move the last for increasing the tension upon the portion of upper engaged by the side grippers relatively to that engaged by the toe grippers.

8. In a pulling-over machine, a toe gripper, side grippers, means to actuate the to pull an up r, a last bottom rgwt, an means which can rendered automatically operative or inoperative andcan also be manually actuated to depres the 9. In a pulling-over machine, a toe gripper, side .to actuate the grippers to an up ,arest to engage the toe end (ii the last displacement of the last by the pulling means, and means engaging the last in therear of the toe rest to more the last angularly relatively to the toe rest.

10. A pulling-over machine, having in combination, grippers to pull an upper, and means capable of manual operation for depresing the last angularly into the pulled upper.

pu ngc m h n h g in combination, o p l an pp nd m als f maauallxdepr s i g h ast the Pulled urp ria ien bd to epr s the heel portion oft-Ref last more the igrs wardportiom'. I

12. A pulling-over machine, having combination, grippers for engaging. the

upper at opposite sides of the shoe, means for spreading and contracting said grippers together, and means for independently spreading and contracting said side grip- 13. A pulling-over machine, having in combination, grippers for engaging the upper at opposite sides of the shoe, means for spreading and contracting said grippers together, and means for separately positioning the spreading mechanism connected with each gripper independently.

14 A pulling-over machine, having in combination, grippers for engaging the upper atopposite sides of the shoe. means for spreading and contracting said grippers together, said spreading mechanism in cluding levers cooperating with each side gripper, and means for independently adjusting the lovers 15. Amachiue for pulling-over and last ing turn shoes, having in combination, grippers, positioning and actuating mechanism therefor arranged to cause them to stretch the upper about the last out of contact with the overhanging edge of the sole at the end and sides of the forward portion of the last and then wra the upper inwardly'over the edge of the so e during the latter part of the stretching movement, and means to last the forward portion of the ulled-over shoe.

16. A machine for pulling-over and lasting turn shoes, having in combination, griprs, positioning and actuating mechanism erefor a to cause them to stretch the upper about the last out of contact with the overhanging edge of the sole and then wrap the upper inwardly over the edge of the sole during the latter part of the stretching movement, wi rs mounted to permit them to be man 3' positioned with relation to thiel'i sole, and aifltomattiiic means for actuating" e wipers to orce eupper into lasted upon the sole.

1'7. i machine for pulling-over and last ing in combination, grippersfpositioningan actuating mechanism thereorarrangedtocausethemtostretch the upper about'the last out of contact with the overhanging edge of the sole and then wrap the upper inwardlyover theedge of the sole during the latter part of the stretching movement, means to clamp the upper against the edge of the sole and guide the wipers relativelyto thcglplane of the sole, and means for automati y actuating the A pi l s me having n eandiia Wipers adapted to act upon opposite s'ides of a shoe simultaneously, "mountedito be manually positioned in advance of their actuation, means for securing theupper in lasted position, automatic means for operating said wipers and securing means.

19. A pulling-over and lasting machine, in combination, end lasting wipers adaptedv to act upon opposite sides of a shoe sim eously, jaws to clam the upper against the side of the last adpoent to the plane of the shoe bottom preliminary to the overwiping operation, means for securing the upper in lasted positiomand automatic means for operating said wipers and securing means.

A pulling-over and" lasting machine, having. in combination, end last-mg wipers adapted to act upon opposite sides of a shoe simultaneously, jaws associated with said wipers to be positioned relatively to the plane of the shoe bottom to clamp the upper against the side face of the shoe and to guide the lasting wipers relatively to that plane, means for inserting a plurality of tacks to secure the upper in lasted position, and automatic operating mechanism for said wipers and securing means.

21. A pulling-over and lasting machine, having in combination, pulling-over means,

including automatically operating pulling devices, and lasting devices operatively connected with the pulling devices to wipe over the last bottom a continuous section of upper which has been stretched by a pulling means and extends from one side of the last around the toe to the other side, said machine haiing provision for permitting adjustment of the lasting devices relatively to the plane of the shoe bottom preparatory to their actuation.

A pulling-over and lasting machine, having in combination, pulling-over means, including automatically operating ulling devices, and lastin devices operative y connected with the pulling devices to wipe over the last bottom a continuous section of upper which has been stretched by the pulling means and extends from one side of the last around the toe to the other side, and arra ed to be adjusted relatively to the plane of t e shoe bottom preparatory to their lasting operation.

A pulling-over and lasting machine, havi in combination, pulling-over means including automatically operating ulling devices, and lasting devices operative y connected with the pulling devices to wipe over the last bottom a continuous section of upper which has been stretched by the pulling means and extends from one side of the last around the toe to the other side, and arranged to be adjusted relatively to the plane of the shoe bottom preparatory to their lasting, operation, and means for securing the upper in lasted position.

24. A pulling-over and lasting machine, having in combination, pulling-over means includin automatically operating pulling devices, lasting devices, and manuallypositioned jaws to clamp the upper against the side faces of the last and guide the automatically actuated lasting devices relatively to the plane of the shoe bottom.

25. A pulling-over and lasting machine, having in combination, pulling-over grippeis formed in sections and arranged to engage acontinuous mtion of upper extending from one side around the toe to the other side of the last, means for actuating the grippers and last relatively to pull the upper, and automatically operated wipers for forcing the upper into lasted position about the toe portion of the last.

26. A pulling-over and lasting machine, having in combination. means for pulling and holding under tension a continuous section of upper extending about the toe of a shoe, means for clamping the upper about the toe portion of the shoe while it is held under tension, and power operated means for lasting and fastening the toe portion of the shoe.

27. A pulling'over and lasting machine, having in combination, means for pulling lcombination, sectional over a shoe, and automatically operated means for lasting the forward portion of the shoe, said lasting means being movably supported for adjustment to permit manual positioning thereof relatively to the plane of the shoe bottom preparatory to their automatic actuation.

28. A pulling-over and lasting machine, having in combination, a plurality of pairs of jaws arranged edge to edge in close proximity to engage and hold under tension a continuous section of upper extending about the toe of the shoe, meansarranged for movement by the'operator after each shoe has been pulled to position it properly relatively to the plane of the shoe bottom for clamping the upper against the side faces of the toe portion of the last, and automatically operated means for lasting the entire forward portion of the shoe.

. 29. A pulling-over machine, having in ppers to enga e a continuous section 0 upper exten around the toe end of a last, means for acthe grippers and last relatively to pull e upper, means for relatively actuating said grippers and last relatively to adjust the upper about the last, and means for overworldng the toe portion of the up per into lasted. position.

30; A pulling-overand lasting machine, having in combination, pulling-over means constructed and arranged to permit adjustment of the upper longitudinally about the toe portion of the shoe, and automatically operated means for lasting the entire toe portion of the upper.

31. A pulling-over and lasting machine, having in combination, pulling-over means arranged to efiect adjustment of the entire toe portion of the upper edgewise around the toe portion of the last, means for forcing said portion of the upper into lasted position, and means for fastening the upper.

32. A pulling-over machine having, in combination, means to pull an upper and hold it under tension about the toe portion of a last, means to last the toe portion of the shoe, and power operating mechanism for the p means and the lasting means, said machine being organized to permit adjustment of the lasting means relati ely to the pulled upper held under tension and for actuation of the lasting means at the will of the operator following such adjustment.

33. A. pullingover and lasting machine, having in combination, automatically operated means to pull over a shoe and coin stnlcted and arranged to cause a rest in the machine's operation while the upper is held under tension, lasting means, said machine having provision for relative positioning movement of the shoe and the lasting means vertically to bring the plane of action of the lasting means and the plane of the shoe bottom together, and means to fasten the upper in lasted position about tlu forward portion of the shoe.

A pulling-over and lasting machine,

having incombination, means to pull over a shoe, and lasting means comprising relatively movable clamping jaws arranged for initial engagement with the pulled upper immediately below the plane of the shoe bottom, and lasting plates arranged for subsequent overwiping engagement with the upper immediately above the plane of the shoe bottom.

35. A pulling-over and lasting machine, having in combination, means to pull over a shoe. and lasting means comprising pivotally connected clamping jaws formed and arranged to embrace the toe portion of the shoe immediately below the plane of the shoe bottom, and lasting plates arranged for subsequent overwiping engagement with the upper immediately above the plane of the shoe bottom.

36. A pulling-over and lasting machine, having in combination, means to pull over a shoe, and lasting means comprising clamping jaws arranged for initial engagement with the pulled upper immediately below the plane of the shoe bottom, and lasting plates which include corner wipers, aloe end wiper, and means for actuating the corner wipers in advance of the end wiper.

37. A pulling-over and lasting machine, having in combination, means to pull over a shoe, and lasting means comprising clamping jaws arranged for initial en gement with the pulled upper immediatey below the plane of the shoe bottom, lasting plates which include corner wipers, a toe end wiper mounted over the corner wipers, and operating meanssarranged to cause the corner wipers to act ahead of the end wiper.

3S. A-pulling-over and lasting machine, having in combination, means to pull over a shoe, and lasting means comprising the pivotally connected, endwise movable upper clamping jaws "l0, and lasting plates 39. A pulling-over and lasting machine, having in combination, means to pull over a shoe, and lasting means comprising pivotally connected independently spring pressed clamping jaws and lasting plates arranged relatively for the purpose de scribed;

40. A pulling-over and lasting machine, having in combination, means to pull over a shoe, and lasting means complising the clamping jaws 70, the yielding actuating means 73. 74 therefor, and the spring pressed plunger 76 arranged to apply pressure through the jaws to the middle portion of the toe.

41. A pulling-over and lasting machine, havlng in combination, means to pull over a shoe and lasting means comprising clamping jaws which can be manually positioned in holding engagement with the pulled upper,

and automatically actuated lasting plates.

42. A pulling-over and lasting machine,

.1 having in combination. means to pull over a shoe, and lasting means which can be manually positioned relatively to the shoe and automatically actuating mechanism therefor.

43. A pulling-over and lasting machine, having in combination, means to pull over a shoe, and lasting means which can be manually positioned relatively to the plane of the bottom of that portion of the shoe upon which they are to operate. and means for automatically actuating mid devices to do their work.

44. A pulling-over and lasting machine, having in combination, means to pull over a shoe, and lastin means which can be manually positioned relatively to the plane of the bottom of that portion of the shoe upon which they are to operate, and comprisin jaws to clamp the upper against the side 0? the shoe, and power driven lasting plates.

45. A pulling-over and lasting machine, having in combination, pulling-over means, lasting plates, power driven means therefor arranged to bring the machine to rest between the operations of said pullingover means and lasting plates, and upper clamp ing jaws arranged to be manually positioned during said period of rest to hold the pulled upper for the lasting plates.

46. A pulling-over and lasting machine, having, in combination, pulling-over means, lasting plates, and power driven means there or arranged to ring the machine to rest between the operations of said pullingover means and lasting plates, said lasting plates being arranged for manual positionmg movement relatively to the plane of the bottom of the last which is in the machine to adapt them for the shoe during said of rat.

47. A pulling-over and lasting machine, having in combination, pullingover means, means, and power driven mechanism for the pulling-over means and the lasting means a to produce a pause after the operation of the pulling-over means, said lamin means including wiper plates mounted to moral manually from an inoperative position to a position in proximity to the shoe and to be initially positioned around the shoe during said pause.

=18. A pulling-over and lasting machine, having in combination. pulling-over means,

means, and power driven mechanism for the pulling'over means arranged to produce a pause after the operation of the pullin -over means, said lasting means including upper clamping jaws arranged to be manually positioned during said pause, and wiper plates.

49. A pulling-over and lasting machine, having in combination, pulling-over means, lasting means, and power driven mechanism for the pulling-over means arranged to produce a pause after the operation of the pulling-over means, said lasting means including upper clamping jaws and wiper plates arranged to be manually positioned relatively to the plane of the shoe bottom during said pause.

50. A pulling-over and lasting machine, having in combination, means to pull over an upper, and means to secure it including a tack holder which is mounted to be moved forwardly by the drivers and has a driver passage and a driver arranged at an angle to the direction of the driver passa to move the tack holder forwardly in the eetion of the upper overdraw-lnimovement as it descends to insert the tac 51. A pulling-over machine, having in combination, means to pull over an upper, and means to secure it including a swinging tack holder having driver passa and a driver bar, having drivers'pivota y mounted thereon, and normally occupying a position at an angle to the driver passages and adapted to be turned into alinement there with by engagement with the walls of the driver passages and to cause thevtack holder to force the upper in the direction of the overdrawing movement.

52. A pulling-over machine, having in combination, means to pull over an upper, and means to secure it including a tack holder having driver passages, a driver bar, and means for guiding the driver bar in a path at an angle to the normal direction of the driver passages, said parts being constructed and arranged for relative movement to insert tacks at an angle to the direction of the driver bar path so as to aid in forcing the upper in the direction of the overdrawinughnlliovement.

53. A p g-over and lastin machine, having in combination, curv grippers formed to e e an upper at the opposite sides and toe en of a last, and means for relatively actuating the grippers and the last to pull the upper, including means for depressing the heel end of the last relatively to the toe end for the purpom described.

54. A pulling-over machine, having in combination, with suitable automatic operating mechanism, shoe bottom resting means comprising a member to engage the fore art of the shoe bottom and a member locat in the rear thereof and. operated to move the heel portion of the last downwardly with relation to the toe portion.

55. A pulling-over machine, having in combination, with suitable automatic operating mechanism, shoe bottom resting means comprising a member to engage the forepart of the shoe bottom and a member located in the r r thereofand adapted to be raised to ticn df upper extending about Bflrmit the presentation of the shoe for a short upper to 'beseized and to be depressed relatively to the trout member to depress the shoe angularly into its normal plane.

.56. A pulling-over machine, having in comhinatiomgrippers comprising a plurality of motions arranged to engage the upper about the toe and adjacent parts of the sides of a last, and means for relatively actuating the grippers and the last to pull the upper, including means ifor depressing the heel end of the last relatively to the toe end "57. A machine for working an upper over theiorepart of a. 'Iasthuving, in combination, end wipers, grippers comprising two pairs of gaws separate from :the wipers and formed and arranged to engage the upper at the curved portions of the toe on ,op ties of the end of the toe, means Eorrelatively actuating the grippers and the Erin a direction to lighten the upper and in xitlmder tension until the'wipers it, and automatic means for actuatmg the wipers to lay the upper into lasted posiiu'on aboutrtheitoe oft-he'last.

58. A pulling-over machine, having in combination, sectional" flippers to engage a continuow section extending aromld the end of a last, means for actuating the gripper and last relatively to pull the upper, means"for relatively actuating said grippers and l t rotatively to adjzmt'th'e upper about the last, and means for overworking the toe portion of the uplasted pwition.

59. A pulling-over machine having, in ccmihination, means-to pull an upper and hold it :under tension, means to fasten the u T means to lay a continuous se'ctimfif the 'upper extending from one sidemf the shoe around the toe of the shoe to -the other side thereof in position to be secured by the faste means, and power operating mechanism or the lasting and fastening means, said machine being organadiustment of the lasting the pulling and the fastening operations into operative relation to the A 0f the-"bottom of the toe portion of theparticular=$oe being worked upon.

EQVA pulling-over and lasting machine Ming, in mmbination, means for pulling under tension a eontinuoussew the toe of a means "for clamping the upper at the of the toe por't-ion of the shoe, and automatically operated means adjustable manually prior to such operation relutively'to planeo'f the bottom of the shoe in the'machine for lasting the entire forward eportiou of the shoe.

'61:. A zpuilingpver and lasting machine having, in'cornbination, pulling-over means,

plates, and power driven means therefor arranged to bring the machine to rest between the operations of said means and plates, said machine having provision for adjusting the upper on the last and for relative vertical movements of the pulled over shoe and the lasting plates .to bring them into operative relation preliminary to the power operation of the wipers.

'62. A pullingover and lasting machine having, in combination, pulling-over means, lasting means, and power driven mechanism therefor arranged to produce ,a pause after the operation of the pullingmver means, said machine being constructed and arranged to permit movement of theshoe and thelasting means relatively in adirection lengthwise of the shoe and sngularly to bringqthem intopu'qnimity dproper-working relation aiter the' been-effected with the lasting means in a remote ion to render the shoe readily observablvby the workman.

last machine =63. A pulling-over and having, in combination, upper p gr'ippers, upper securing means, toe e wipers ounted V relatively to the since after .the upper has been pulled, means ior uperating the wipers to day the upper into to be fastened, and means tor operating the securing means to tack the upper overlaid by the wipers.

64. A pulling-over and lasting machine having, in combination, upper pulling pers, uppernsecm'ingmeans, toe embracing plates mounted to be manually relatively to the shoe arfterthe upper has been ed, means for releasing-the grippers from the toe portion :of the upper, :and power driving means to lay theper'over the toe portion'oi the last and to asten'rthe upper.

65. A pulling-over and l machine having, in combination, upperp grippers, upper securing means, power vmg mechanism therefor, said machine o to cometo rest afterthepulling operation with the toe portion of the upper held under'tension, and toe embracing plates mounted to be manually positioned around the pulled upper of the toe of the shoe during such period of said mechanism being arranged to efiect 'the overlaying of the upper preparatory to the securing operation when themachine is restarted.

66. A pulling-over and lasting machine having, in combination, upper pulling grippers, upper securing means, :power driving mechanism for the securing means, mid machine being organized to hold the pulled upper under tension about the toe portion of the Ian, and lasting means-mcludmg'toe embracing mounted to be manually positioned around the pulled upper oi the toe'portion of the shoe andto be automatically operated by said mechanism to overlay the upper and hold it for the securing operation.

67. A pulling-over and lasting machine having, in combination, upper pulling grippers, upper securing means, power driving mechanism therefor, said machine being organized to come to rest after the pulling operation with the toe portion of the upper held under tension, lasting means including toe embracing clamping plates and lasting plates mounted for positioning movement to cause the clamping plates to embrace and hold the toe of the upper at the edge of the last and to locate the lasting plates at the right altitude relatively to the plane of the shoe III, and connections from said mechanism for operating the lasting plates to overlay the upper and the securing means to fasten it.

68. A pulling-over and lasting machine having, in combination, upper pulling grippers, upper securing means, toe lasting means, and operating mechanism all organized to hold the pulled upper under tension for inspection and to permit manual POSI- tioning of the l means into operative relation to the pull upper and thereafter to cause the lasting means and the securing means to perform their operations automatically.

69. A pullin -over and lasting machine having, in co ination, means for pulling and holding under tension a continuous section of upper extending around the toe of the shoe, means mounted for adjusting relative to the plane of the bottom of the pulled shoe for clamping the upper against the edge of the sole around the toe portion of the shoe,- and means for working into lasted posi 'on the marginal portion of the entire orward part of the shoe that is so tensioned and clamped.

70. A pulling-over machine having, in combination, means to pull an upper and hold it under tension, means to last the toe portion of the shoe, and power operating mechanism, said machine being. organized to permit adjustment of the lasting means relatively to the pulled upper held under tension and for actuation of the lasting means at the will of the operator following such adjustment.

7L A pulling-over machine having, in combination, means to pull an upper and hold it under tension, means to fasten the upper, lasting means to lay a continuous section of the upper extending from one side of the shoe around the toe of the shoe to the other side thereof in position to be secured by the fastening means, and power mec for the lasting and fastening means, said machine being organmod to permit adjustment of the lasting means-between the pulling and the fastening the upper has been pulled, and power mechanism to operate the plates to lay the upper into lasted position and hold it for a fastening operation on the upper.

73. A pulliug-over machine having, in combination, ing means comprising toe embracing plates mounted for adjustment toward the shoe and into operative relation to the plane of the bottom of the toe portion of the shoe after the upper has been pulled, power mechanism to operate the plates to lay the upper into lasted 'tion, and securing mechanism arrang to operate automati cally to fasten the upper while the plates hold it.

74. A pulling-over and lasting machine having, in combination, pulling-over means and lasting means including toe embracing jaws and superposed wiper plates mounted for manual timing of the jaws around the work an d f the aws and the plates at the desired elevation relatively to the bottom of the pulled over shoe, power mechanism for operating the lasting plates, and upper securing means. 75. A. pulling-over'and lasting machine having, in combination, pulling-over means and lasting means including a carrier plate movable lengthwise of the shoe and also up and down and upper clamping jaws and lasting plates mounted on the plate to be positioned relatively to the shoe by such movements, and means to operate said lasting plates.

76. A pulling-over and lasting machine having, in combination, pulling-over means and lasting means and upper clamping jaws mounted and arranged to be manually adjusted and held in upper holding position during the operation of the lasting means.

77. A pulling-over and lasting machine having, in combination, pulling-over means and lasting means, and upper clamping means mounted for manual adjustment into upper holding position, means for yieldingly holding the clamping means in operative position and other means for operating the lasting means.

78. A pullingover and lasting machine having, in combination, pulling-over means, and clamping means comprising a supporting plate, a jaw, a stem therefor slidingly mounted in the jaw and a yieldingly out pressed plunger for positioning the jaw rela tively to the plate.

means to pull over a shoe, last- A pulling-over and lasting machine having, in combination, pullin over means, and clamping means comprising a supporting plate, a pair of connected jaws, stems for the jaws sliding in the plate, and separate spring-presed plungers for positioning the jaws relatively to the plate.

80. A pulling-over and lasting machine having, in combination, pulling-over means, and clamping means comprising a supporting plate, a pair of connected jaws, stems for the jaws sliding in the plate, and separate spring-prewed plungers for positioning the jaws relatively to the plate, said plungers being arranged between the stems and the connected ends of the jaws and maintaining their connected ends normally advanced relatively to their outer ends 81. A. pullin -over and lasting machine having, in combination, pulling-over means and lasting means including toe embracing ,wipers, a carrier plate on which the wipers are pivoted and which is mounted for positioning movement toward and from the work, an actuator having pin and slot operating connections with the wipers and with relation to which said positioning movement of the plate takes place, and driving mechanism to cause the actuator to turn the wipers to lay the upper over the toe bot-tom.

82. In a pulling-over machine, grippers for engaging an upper, power operated Am A. RUSSELL,

ELIZABETH C. COUPE.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for live cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. 0.

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